We are 9 days away from @holidayfairto Dec 1 - 23 ⁣⁣⁣
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“Pho Long Bao” 🍲 🥟 ⁣⁣⁣
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Stay warm with our giant soup dumpling filled with an 18-24 hour Pho broth (our chef’s speciality 😉). We will be changing the colour of this giant soup dumpling throughout the month of December. 🤫 ⁣⁣⁣
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💡 Drink thoroughly with a straw then break it open to enjoy the filling with sauce. ⁣⁣⁣
💡 Sign up for Chef Linh’s “Anatomy of Pho” cooking classes @gustacooking and take home your own Pho-making kit.

TORONTO // Look, the darker and colder it gets outside, the more of an excuse you have to tuck into some hella comforting, gorgeous pizza and vino with your best pals – so get to @terronito and, if you really need a better excuse (though seriously just look outside), grab Terroni’s #Mealshare special – one of their signature pies or classic pastas – and you’ll be sharing a simple, healthy meal with a youth in need. Cheers to that! #MealshareYYZ

{Chirashi-don} 🍣🍚 @kiurestaurant
Went to meet with my elementary girlfriends for our annual dinner ~ It's been hard to find good and fresh chirashi-don (sashimi on rice) in Midtown, so I was super happy to be eating at @kiurestaurant. 😊 The sashimi was super fresh and the rice was lightly seasoned, so yummy I was so happy!! 😁 Overall I was happy I get to eat fresh sashimi and enjoyed my dinner with the girls there! 😋😍

Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land.

【Top 3 Nutrition Myths - Let's Bust The BS!】
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1️⃣ Carbs, fats, meats, fried foods, desserts, fruits, alcohol, etc. makes you fat.
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Science is clear on this: The governing factor for weight change is CALORIES. Regardless of what you eat, if your overall intake calorie is higher than what your body needs, you will gain weight. Do the opposite (even with purely cookies - but please don’t do this, health matters too), and you will lose weight. That’s it.
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2️⃣ Eating after 8/9/10 PM, before bed, late night, etc. makes you fat.
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Again, science is clear: It’s the overall CALORIES, regardless of WHEN you intake those calories.
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3️⃣ To lose fat, you just have to “eat healthy” and “listen to your body”.
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We know that it’s the overall calories that governs weight change. But just because a food is “healthy”, doesn’t mean you can eat what ever amounts of it, doesn’t mean it’s low in calorie density. For example, healthy fats like avocados, olive oil, almonds, are very high in calorie density. In moderation, they’re beneficial, but consume too much of them and you’ll gain weight.
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Another cool, spiritual-sounding philosophy that’s been around is “listen to your body”. And many people misinterpret what that really means. The fact is, you still have to consciously make decisions. Health, like anything good in life, won’t just be handed to you without effort. Scientifically speaking, your body is a survival machine. When it sees foods of high calories, it’ll want you to consume them most of the time, because that could be the extra energy needed for you to survive in the wild. But in the present world, survival isn’t always the issue, and our body doesn’t “understand” that we now live in a very different time. So, consciously we must take control and make decisions for our nutrition. Just because something sounds “right” and “spiritual”, doesn’t always mean it’s good for us.

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